Artist creates 'light graffiti' with torch across British landscape

Known as 'Light Graffiti', these images look like they are showing illuminated
neon sculptures, when in fact they are 'drawn' on to a night sky with only a
torch.

Light graffiti: Like an advanced-photographic version of writing your name with a sparkler on Bonfire Night, Michael Bosanko has spent the past five years developing his artPhoto: BARCROFT

11:20AM GMT 12 Feb 2009

Created by Welsh artist Michael Bosanko, the Light Graffiti effect is achieved using only five coloured torches and a long exposure on a digital Canon camera.

Like an advanced-photographic version of writing your name with a sparkler on Bonfire Night, Michael has spent the past five years developing his art.

Based in Cardiff, Mr Bosanko, 39, draws most of his light art either in the empty urban night spaces of cities like Newport and his home town, or in the more desolate landscapes of the Brecon Beacons hills.

"I use my torches like an artist would use a paint brush," says Mr Bosanko.

"I employ an exposure that lasts from ten seconds to one hour and then try to let my art manage to create what I had imagined.